Teammates in NASL, teammates in Ireland: Farago credits Keegan for helping open the door at St. Patrick’s 28 Mar 2018 Jake Keegan: If you’re reading this article, know that, during the course of the interview, Tyson Farago said that he’d take you out for a “nice dinner.” Hold him to it!
Canadian Deltas make their moves to Ottawa 10 Jan 2018 The Ottawa Fury can likely make a long shopping list of Canadians, and on Wednesday the club announced the signings of fullback Maxim Tissot and centre back Nana Attakora.
MLS Cup in ’17 will be one last hurrah ahead of a harsh 2018 for Canadian club soccer 7 Dec 2017 The truth is, 2018 will be a low point for men’s soccer in Canada. Boy, is it going to suck. It will be ultimate in lame-duck years. Canadian jobs will dwindle. We’ll have fewer teams to support. And even in TFC beats Seattle 10-0 on Saturday, that’s not going to change a thing.
FCE’s move to cease operations is a bad sign for CanPL, Edmonton World Cup boosters 25 Nov 2017 The Edmonton Economic Development Corporation can do all the promotions it wants, but it’s hard to tell anyone that you can be a soccer city, worth hosting national-team competition, when you can’t sell 4,000 not-expensive tickets to see a pro soccer team. It will be much harder to sell Edmonton to the World Cup Bid Committee and FIFA with a straight face, now.
Fath: FC Edmonton will not return in any league unless Edmonton proves soccer can be sustainable 24 Nov 2017 “As for the Canadian Premier League, I love the idea, I think it’s important for Canada. But what we require is it to be sustainable. We need to be sustainable. Whatever we do, it won’t be USL. And the NASL is not sustainable in Edmonton.”
With the club’s path unclear, FC Edmonton begins releasing players 16 Nov 2017 The group of FC Edmonton players had their contracts expire on November 15. And with the team in limbo at the moment, it’s really no surprise that the team is now making the news of these players’ departures official.
Canada wins the Soccer Bowl 12 Nov 2017 And the San Francisco Canadians, er, Deltas, did it with the kind of gutsy performance that might make a certain hockey commentator known for flashy suits and big collars wonder if the team should just be up and moved to Kingston and entered in the Canadian Premier League.
“We are not going to throw away our season because of rumours” — Marc Dos Santos preps Deltas for NASL final 9 Nov 2017 For Dos Santos, who was just named the NASL’s coach of the year, Attakora’s drive is a representation of the team spirit that exists within the Deltas.
FC Edmonton owner Fath hopeful NASL can still salvage Div-2 status after U.S. court defeat 4 Nov 2017 “I was very disappointed in the initial decision to not sanction NASL as a Division-2 league, because it should be,” Fath said Saturday. “And now I am very disappointed that the injunction didn’t go through. Now, the league will look at options, we’ll be looking at the next steps.”
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: The Final Countdown 30 Oct 2017 Well, that’s it. With the NASL regular season coming to a close this past weekend, we’re now at the final instalment of the Power Rankings for 2017.
